Major UK video games retailer GAME have spoken out against what they call the “frequent” broken street dates that have occurred with recent releases, none more prevalent than Pokemon X & Y. GAME was forced to sell the title early after multiple other retailers had breached the street date of Saturday, October 12th, and began selling X & Y on Friday the 11th. Breaking street dates seems to be a more common occurrence than ever, with Amazon even shipping out GTA 5 early. GAME category director Charlotte Knight had these choice words about the issue:
“We take compliance with all industry standards and regulations very seriously. It was extremely disappointing to see a number of competitors break street date over Thursday and Friday on Nintendo products across both online and store environments. We are seeing street date breaches occur on a frequent basis and this undermines the work which goes in to creating exceptional launches.”
…Kinda
…I love Nintendo but they have to realize that almost everywhere you turn someone is going to cheat your dates… In my opinion who cares? I buy my ps3 games early i just wish i could find wiiu games and 3ds games a day early.
I care because I wanna have sex with you bb
…Leave me alone you pathetic pervert…
Don’t mind him he has never seen a girl before
nomnomnomnomnom…… Her boobs are very tasty. Try them PopeOnDope ;) ITS FUN TO RAVAGE HER :D
you see, this is why the trolls have a field day on this site. Ignore them seriously. think about how many trolls who went on for ages bothering people because people wouldn’t ignore them
Depends where you order from, if your in the UK, Shopto.net more often than not delivers a day or two early.
It does come off with a high price. If one store starts selling before, every gamer is going to that one, and leave the other unattended. The stores that got cheated may no resupply their stocks because of that, and consequentially, stop sipping future titles if they see the distributor doesn’t care for that.
Also, you have the servers problem. If people get the game on the real launch date, It’ll take a while for them to start accessing the internet on their devices, time which they programmed themselves to work with. But launching the title even a day before may mean a flood on the serves right after the activation, which may cause them to go down.
There is a reason for them to set a determinate time for the launch, and if retailers don’t obey it, they may end up making the game a failure. We’re talking about Pokemon X & Y here, a game that has been hyped to eleven, so we know it’s not gonna happen, but with other titles, be it from Nintendo, Sony, EA, Ubisoft or whatever company you may name, it may hinder sales and hurt both retailers, gamers and the company!
I get absolutely every game I buy about 1-3 days early. How? My friends own a game store. As soon as the game is delivered to them, I get a text telling me that I can come pick up game X when ever I want.
I got the Wiiu console a full day early and same with my PS4 probs.
Game is the one throwing a tanty, not Ninty
Nintendo sent someone out to get back copies of pokemon X, and Y when it was released.
I want to be your panty Pokémon ;) Be sure to rub me well and soak me every 5 mins or I will die :P
i’ll just let you die…
But I LOVE you
Why do you continue to harass innocent people..?
Innocent? Hahahaha you look like a BDSM Mistress and a person who worships SATAN.
Just because im emo? You take on the name of the lord yet you harass, curse, and sin, you poser… Seems more like you worship the devil, you sad excuse for a lonely internet geek… Harass girls online all you want it just proves you can’t find a girl in real life near you, who can stand to see, touch, or have feelings for you… You’re sad and pathetic…
Is that you speaking or the devil? Only a powerful negative force like satan can find such hostile, wicked, vile and EVIL things to say.
By the power of God I compel you, unholy wretch!!!!!!!!!11
Too early*
Not my fault, you were jerking it too hard!!
Questioning who cares really isn’t an opinion… And it was a worldwide release, that’s why we care!
Wanna have sex?
..Why is there so much perverted people online -_-
You can only laugh about it i guess :) They’re just pathetic.
Why “ARE” there…. what the fuck are you, Russian? Nazi??
You do have very succulent lips, makes somebody want to slide something right in there.
…Leave me alone, sick pervert..
Don’t worry i tattled… The commander shall deal with this
You’re under my protection young one…
I know of Miss Scott and her friends are my friends…
…I don’t need help with low class perverts… -_-‘
And were not friends…
You must be great at parties. Haha joking… sort of
BDSM parties you mean :P
YOU!
ooo more hot bbz!! keep em cunts coming father!! mmmmmmnomnomnom
LOL and people think im disgusting
Your primitive mind will be erased and you will be recycled as a 3DS battery…
As long as im inside the 3ds shes “Playing” with ;P
Wtf is wrong with you?
LOL, shes a emo all they do is cry, seems like a win win, i like it when they squeal, i’ll bang her right up against the window, you can join or stfu.
You sick headed nasty moron, when perverts say things like that it makes me just want to tie a chain around their necks and pull till there’s no more breathing from the sick fuck. >:l
Calm down sheesh sorry -.-
:D you go sister
Lol ok I just want to let you know that every single man on this planet, and I mean every single one including your dad, your grandads, you brothers, your uncles and every guy you ever met in school each and every single one of us thinks that way we just dont say it to a girls face. Well we do if we think she’ll like hearing it.
Lisa why are you so sexy?? Please be my girlfriend!! Promise I’ll make you famous ^_^
Omg you’re still here?
Yes and I won’t leave until I bang some cunt
Go fuck a melon pervert :| than atleast you’ll finally get laid
You are NOBODY to say shit, stupid woman!! If I bang a melon my dick will break but if I bang yooouu……………… ooooooooo……….. If I put my dick into your welcoming cunt with all of that OH SO FRESHLY secreted wetness……………..mmmmmmmmmmmmm…………. that will be the day!! Your pig like squeals will make it the sex of a lifetime ^_^ :D
It’s official you’re a huge perverted sicko.
Really? You’re the one who asked me to “eff” a melon. So I think you’re the perverted sicko. Now GTFO before I tell your mom 16yo brat
It’s as close as you’re going to get perv. And I meant the inside of the melon, why in hell would you fuck a hard exterior? Are you that stupid? o.o
So you want me to fuck the wet, red, inside of a melon and yet you don’t accept being a perv?? hahaha… seriously kid, you’re a sick fucking pervert who deserves a nice thumping. I can just imagine you pigly squealing as I decimate you….. begging for your pathetic existence.
Now go make me a sandwich!!
Like i said go fuck a melon pervert.
Know your place woman. If I remain hungry any longer I swear I’ll lock you in the kitchen for good!
Whatever i have no reason to return to this site all of the good trolls are gone, so bye.
…Come any where near me and you’ll end up dickless…
0_0 ouch…
O_O’
Odds are someone beat you to the punch ;)
..I hate sickos like him online and offline…
Oh hai there, welcome to the seconds season of cross assault, with your host “Voice of Fault” playing the role as Miranda, and our all’s favorite sexual harassment Panda “PassionateBang”, who plays the role of the bearded Aris. Enjoy!
You gonna cut, rip or just smash it off?
DarkJamD peel forgot “peel”
You shouldn’t even bother coming down into this comment section. It’s filled with idiots, trolls, and people who just want to bash Nintendo. And apparently asshole pervs too. You can’t find a decent conversation talking about cool Nintendo stuff, ever. I always try and avoid scrolling down here, but sometimes it’s just a habit, and damn, look where I am now.
Asshole.
Don’t worry, High Command will deal with these slaves shortly…
COMMANDER COMMANDER THERES A GUY UP THERE SEXUALLY HARASSING A YOUNG CADET
He will be punished severely for his primitive behavior…
Dude, is your life so empty you resort to an imaginary status online?
You probably fancy bars dressed in drag during the weekends dont you. You are so Pathetic.
What the hell is going on?… I came on here to bitch about GAME breaking the street date, too…
Just shrug it off and move on, children will be children…
3dsDogshitz.
THE FINGER OF SHAME!
Krig, hat og segregering vil følge.
Whatever, big fucking deal. My pokemon X/Y was sent out thursday, they expected it to be mailed to me on saturday, it came friday. so whats the big deal? mail did a good job and delivered it more quickly. and seriously a very big fucking deal, people get game a day before. not even a day, more like 11 hours before
I agree to 100%. It is extremely disrespectful towards the whole development team behind the title to buy, play or sell a game before it’s officially released. Even if I had the chance, I would NEVER get a game early because of this reason. I feel disgusted towards the companies who abuse the early release for profits and more less so disgusted towards players who can’t respect the release date.
It’s actually a fineable offence in the UK to break a street date. Trouble is the law on it never gets enforced, so no fines are given out and people can break street dates all over the place with no negative consequences
If you order it online and the shipping goes quicker than expected that’s one thing, but a store selling it early is totally different.
marketing dollars go into launches, midnight openings, special events, promotions and bonuses. Stores should not abuse launch date. I’m sure it’s also a breach of some contract that they agreed to in order to have them on launch day.
also a big part of games now is the online aspect, getting everyone to log in for the first time at the same time (within time zones) is another factor with launch dates.
Who wouldn’t love to get a game early? They shouldn’t sell it early though. Money hungry bitches.
Read the article and don’t blame Game.
but I thought Nintendo was sweet and innocent and could do no wrong, they’re not a corporation that wants money they just want to give people happiness through games and mario……
Not a single decision Sony’s game division made even comes close to half the evil seen in this video.
Not even when Sony was raping the competition with the PS2 and PS1, they didn’t squash 3rd party developers.
For all the mistakes Ken Kutaragi made with the PS3, at least he saved us all from the vicious cycle with his invention of the PlayStation 1.
nintendo is a piece of shit, they wonder why nobody develops for them.
my local GAME had a big launch event for a few hours just before it released, but our HMV was selling it early so they messed up GAMEs big launch event(before you had to sign up, after the mess you didnt) and GAME said they put in a complaint, dont blame them tbh, if i organised a big event and someone came along to ruin my plans i would get pretty annoyed
I blame Nintendo for the ridiculous release date of a Saturday in a country where it’s almost impossible to get anything delivered. And hell. GAME themselves sent the parcel out on Wednesday, as did Shopto because of this.
The Saturday launch day is irrelevant. The article is about purchasing on launch, from a shop. NOT online, as you seem to think.
I definitely think that it’s too bad that the games were given out early. I don’t blame the companies that shipped the games earlier because they have to make sure that we receive it. It’s just unacceptable if a store has them on the shelves early. Nintendo should give them a nice fine
Translation : “Fuck these bitches, we could have made more money. It was fucking Pokémon god damnit !”
Once again, another idiot who hasn’t read the article and assumes this was GAME trying to make money. It wasn’t, it was them releasing on the SAME day as their competitors to not LOSE money.
And I’m an idiot. Awww, you so cute, you’re like a puppy who doesn’t know the world yet :3
Maybe I didn’t word it correctly, although if you actually read the article as opposed to just being condescending to anyone who did do so, you’d know they were essentially forced to do it because their competitors had released it a day early, and – as a company – they really can’t let their competitors take all their sales illegally.
So yes, you are an idiot.
don’t be naive…
Refer to my reply above.
First!
Didn’t help that X & Y were scheduled for a Saturday release. Here in Europe games traditionally launch on Fridays. And the Friday is when a lot of these retailers started selling them. Not a huge surprise really (not that that absolves anything)
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It would have been cool if the game had a true universal launch like Nintendo planned, but I realize that’s kind of impossible. People are too impatient and greedy. At least people are enjoying the game and it’s selling reeeeaaally well. That’s what counts. ^_^
games*
Although they aren’t too different from each other.
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